12 March 1943 | A 14-year old Polish girl, Czesława Kwoka (camp no. 26947), was murdered in #Auschwitz with a phenol injection into the heart. She was deported by Germans from Zamość region as part of their plan of creating „living space” in the east. 1/4
According to the testimony of a survivor Wilhelm Brasse, who took the registration picture of Czesława Kwoka, just before it was taken, the girl was beaten by one of the guards. In the picture, you can see the cut in her lip.
Czesława Kwoka was born on 15 August 1928 in Wólka Złojecka, a village in the Zamość region. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 13 December 1942 in a transport of 318 women. Her mother Katarzyna was also deported. She received number 26949 & perished in the camp on 18 February 1943.
In total during the so-called "Aktion Zamość", ethnic leansing of the Zamość region, between November 1942 & March 1943 the Germans expelled some 110 thousand Poles from 297 villages of the region. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cl…
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1,3 million people were deported to Auschwitz. Among some 400,000 people registered as prisoners, there were 131,000 women: 82,000 Jewish, 31,000 Polish, 11,000 Roma as well as Russian, Belorussian, German, French, Czech & Yugoslavian. #InternationalWomensDay#WomensHistoryMonth
#Women became prisoners of the German Nazi concentration camp #Auschwitz in late March 1942. The first two transports - of German female prisoners transferred from the Ravensbrück camp & Slovak Jewish women deported from Poprad - arrived on 26 March. #InternationalWomensDay
From transports of Jews deported by the Germans for extermination to #Auschwitz SS doctors selected hundreds of thousands of #women & girls to be murdered in gas chambers immediately after arrival. Pregnant women & mothers with babies were murdered too. #InternationalWomensDay
#Auschwitz survivors Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Władysław Bartoszewski were honoured for their work in "Żegota" - the Polish Council to Aid Jews en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BBego…
6 March 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Willem Philip van Naarden, was born in Amsterdam.
In March 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
Willem Philip van Naarden was a son of Levie and Elisabeth. In 1943 they decided to go into hiding. Willem was placed with a family of 7 children in Bennebroek.
At some point Betty wanted to check how her son was doing, and asked a family friend, who worked for an organization that helped Jews in hiding, about him. The brother of this person most probably denounced Willem. In mid-November 1943 Willem was arrested.
5 March 1888 | A German Jew, Eugen Salomon, was born in Wörrstadt. His family moved to Mainz, where he became one of the founders and chairman of today’s football club @1FSVMainz05 at the age of only 17.
He was initially a successful textile manufacturer and later worked as a salesman. Throughout his life, he supported Mainz 05 together with a circle of companions through his work and with financial means.
In 1933, Eugen Salomon was forced to leave Mainz and emigrate to France. In 1942 he was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz, where he was murdered on 14 Nov. of that year. Until today Mainz 05 takes a great interest in Eugen Salomon‘s fate.
🧵 28 February 1941 | The Reichsführung SS set the agenda for Heinrich Himmler's visit to Auschwitz concentration camp for Saturday, March 1.
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Participants: Reichsführer SS, SS-Gruppenführer Wolff (Chief of Staff of the Reichsführer SS, appointed as liaison officer with IG Farbenindustrie), SS-Sturmbannführer Vogel and SS-Untersturmführer von Thermann.
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Departure from Tempelhof Airport - 11:00 a.m. Arrival in Gliwice around 1:00 p.m. Lunch in Gliwice, departure by car around 2:00 p.m. Arrival to Oświęcim at approx. 16:00. Then inspection of Auschwitz concentration camp.
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26 February 1941 | SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler ordered expulsion of Jews from the town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz). The vacated residences should be reserved for the Buna-Werke construction workers.
In the picture: expulsion of Jewish inhabitants from Oświęcim.
Himmler also ordered that Polish workers and construction workers who could be used as a workforce for the construction of the Buna-Werke should not be expelled from the Oświęcim area.
Listen to our podcast about the construction of the IG Farbenindustrie plant (Buna-Werke) and the third part of the Auschwitz camp complex built next to the construction site: anchor.fm/auschwitz-memo…